{"id":370924,"date":"2026-04-09T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:40:16","slug":"anna-wintour-poses-with-devil-wears-prada-double-meryl-streep-as-she-addresses-miranda-priestly-similarities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370924\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Wintour poses with Devil Wears Prada double Meryl Streep as she addresses Miranda Priestly similarities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Devil Wear Prada fans have been left seeing double as Anna Wintour poses with star Meryl Streep \u2013 who plays a character famously based on the ex magazine editor. <\/p>\n

In a new interview, Wintour discussed exactly what it\u2019s like to be played by Meryl Streep in the films, insisting that fictional Runway editor Miranda Priestly is \u201cdistant\u201d from her real personality. <\/p>\n

The Devil Wears Prada 2, coming out next month, will feature Streep in the role of Miranda again, having played her in the first film in 2006. The film is based on the novel by Wintour\u2019s former assistant Lauren Weisberger, with the powerful yet icy Miranda said to be inspired by ex Vogue editor Wintour. <\/p>\n

Speaking to Vogue<\/a>, Wintour addressed Streep\u2019s performance in the role of Priestly, editor-in-chief of fictional fashion magazine, Runway.<\/p>\n

\"AnnaAnna Wintour and Meryl Streep on the cover of ‘Vogue’ (Annie Leibovitz\/Vogue)<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all,\u201d Wintour said. \u201cI\u2019d like to say it\u2019s such an honour to be played by Meryl, however distant Miranda is from myself. Who wouldn\u2019t think that that wasn\u2019t the most extraordinary gift?\u201d<\/p>\n

Wintour previously spoke out about her thoughts on Miranda Priestly in an interview<\/a> with the New Yorker in September last year, revealing that she turned up to movie\u2019s 2006 premiere in Prada, with \u201cno idea what the film was going to be about\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think that the fashion industry were very sweetly concerned for me about the film that it was gonna paint me in some kind of difficult light,\u201d she said, adding that the character is \u201ca caricature\u201d of herself. <\/p>\n

Overall, Wintour described the first film as \u201chighly enjoyable\u201d and \u201cvery funny\u201d. She said: \u201cMiuccia [Prada] and I talk about it a lot, and I say to her: \u2018Well, it was really good for you.\u201d\u2013\u2013 <\/p>\n

\"AnnaAnna Wintour \u2013 who the character of Miranda Priestly is said to be based on (Getty)<\/p>\n

The Devil Wears Prada 2 will arrive in UK cinemas on 1 May 2026. Fans of the first film can expect stars Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci to all return for the second. While the 2006 classic followed Andy (Anne Hathaway) as she clumsily navigated her way through her role as a junior assistant, the second film\u2019s plot has been kept under wraps \u2013 even Wintour doesn\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

But, from the trailer<\/a>, fans predict the sequel will take place amid the decline of the magazine industry and will follow Priestley in a high-profile scandal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-370924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}